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Mastering Office 365 Administration

By : Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers
Book Image

Mastering Office 365 Administration

By: Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers

Overview of this book

In today's world, every organization aims to migrate to the cloud in order to become more efficient by making full use of the latest technologies. Office 365 is your one-stop solution to making your organization reliable, scalable, and fast. This book will start with an overview of Office 365 components, and help you learn how to use the administration portal, and perform basic administration. It then goes on to cover common management tasks, such as managing users, admin roles, groups, securing Office 365, and enforcing compliance. In the next set of chapters, you will learn about topics including managing Skype for Business Online, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. In the final section of the book, you will learn how to carry out reporting and monitor Office 365 service health. By the end of this book, you will be able to implement enterprise-level services with Office 365 based on your organization's needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
10
Administering Yammer
Index

Interacting with Azure AD


As is customary in most Microsoft products, there is more than one way to manage Azure AD users and groups. Most of the time, you'll probably use the Office 365 portal to perform simple and routine tasks. If you've activated your Windows Azure subscriptions, you also have access to the same users and groups through the Azure portal. For complex functions and automation, the Azure AD PowerShell modules described in this can be used. Because PowerShell is such a useful tool, we'll show you many examples of how to work with it.

Office 365 portal

The first and most familiar way you'll find for interacting with users in Office 365 is in the Office 365 portal itself. For basic and simple one-off tasks, you will probably find it faster to use the website rather than any other method. However, keeping track of the distinctive features will require frequent use and attention, since Microsoft is constantly improving and changing the way the portal works. Case in point—Microsoft...